How can I determine elemental weaknesses (the armamentalist abilities can add elemental properties to party members during battle) for enemies? I know thieves have an ability to gain more information on enemies, but it does not appear to display elemental weaknesses (if they exist).

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Against most normal monsters, weaknesses rarely come into play as you can beat them down quite fast. Weaknesses mostly come into play against bosses, and the only place I know of to get weaknesses for bosses is the DQ9 wiki: http://dragonquest.wikia.com/

The thief's Eye For Trouble ability adds additional information to the Defeated Monster List, which sometimes tells elemental strengths and weaknesses. If there, it's somewhere in the text description of the monster, and not called out alongside experience or gold per monster.

I just sort of go with what I think would be best. For example, when I have a seasaur I'm battling, I know that fire spells like frizz, or kerfrizz will barely do anything so I go with an attack like dragon slash.

Also sometimes the attack description tells what the attack is good against, such as cattle prod, and others are just plain obvious like metal slash is obviously good against metal monsters, such as a metal slime knight.

While this in a sense does answer the question i think the asker was looking to find out the weakness on their own without using a guide. also what happens when the guide is no longer available because the site is down or it's been removed.
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Memor-XOct 3 '14 at 6:58